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Diodoros, 153

Diogenes Laertios, 63, 64, 120

Discord, 39

Divisibility of matter, infinite, 115

Dyad, 144, 152

Earth, the, 31, 67 f., 83; a heavenly body, 13; form of, 13, 14, 22, 106; is infinite, 78; once covered by the sea, 82; rests on water, 3, 4; rests on air, 20; is sinking into the sea, 83

Earthquakes, 7, 18, 22, 261

Eclipses, 7, 15, 63, 84, 148

Ecliptic, 6

Egyptian wisdom, 154

Eleatic school, 64 f.; unity, 79, 103, 105, 119

Elements, 41, 161, 167, 183, 221, 224; imperishable, 169, 230; indivisible, 142; motion of, 215; separation of, 12

Embryo, 228

Empedokles, 57, 60, *157 f., 247, 249; reverenced as a god, 203

Enquiry, ways of, 89

Epikouros, 85

Epiphanius, 108, 119, 129, 154 f., 234

Equality, geometrical, 133

Erinnyes, 33

Esoteric class, 154

Eudemos, 116

Euripides, 257

Eurystratos, 17, 19, 21

Eye, Empedokles on the, 197

False assumptions of Melissos, 129

Fate, 39, 62, 97, 163

Fire, 19, 99, 155, 191; central Pythagorean, 136; ever-living, 29; periodic, 61; transformations of, 31

First principle, 2, 5, 67, 218, 230, 234, 260; are ten, 138; heat and cold as, 104; is eternal, 13; is fire, 58; is water, 4, 67

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